28th April 2022
The French government commits to the end of urban sprawl by 2050 and to halve it within ten years.
Last year, a major piece of legislation on climate change (Loi Climat et Résilience) passed through the French parliament.
One of the central objectives of this wide-ranging law is to achieve ‘net zero’ land take for new development by 2050, with the intermediate objective of halving the rate of consumption of natural, agricultural and forest areas over the next ten years.